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Joseph Louis Marino Lawyer and Legal Educator, 85

Joseph Louis Marino, a lawyer and legal educator, died on Sept. 1 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 85.

Mr. Marino founded a popular review course for the New York State bar examination in the 1940's.

In 1964, he ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic candidate for Congress in Nassau County. He sold the bar-review course in 1979 and practiced law with F. Lee Bailey's firm in Manhattan. Then he moved to Santa Fe and became first administrator of the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Mr. Marino was born in Manhattan and grew up in Brooklyn. He received a bachelor's degree in 1938 from Fordham and his law degree from St. John's University in 1946 after World War II service in the Army Air Forces. In 1947, he married Alma Morotti, who died in 1999.

He is survived by two daughters, Laura Marino and Norma Baca, both of Santa Fe; a son, Joseph Jr., of Manhattan; three grandsons; and two brothers, Louis, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Julio J., of Great Neck, N.Y.